Rene Clair - Paris qui dort (1925)

This is the story a scientist who invents a ray that freezes people who are caught in its beam. There are some wonderful shots of old Paris.



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Paper Plane Poem Falling From The Eiffel Tower

Paper Plane Poem Falling From The Eiffel Tower from Do Not Look at the Sun on Vimeo.

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The Arago Medallions

In 1994 Dutch artist Jan Dibbets was commissioned by the City of Paris to create a memorial to French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician Francois Jean Dominique Arago. He designed  bronze discs like the one pictured above. If you look down when you are wandering the streets of Paris you might notice these medallions inlaid in the pavement. All of them are aligned on a line running north to south over 9.2 kilometers along the Parisian Meridian, also called the Arago line.
The line was made famous when it was mentioned in the novel The Da Vinci Code where it is referred to as "the Rose Line". I have seen it at Saint-Sulpice Church and I'll look for some of the others next time I'm in Paris.

Some of the medallions can be seen at these spots:

- 15, rue Dereure (75018)

- 9, boulevard Haussmann (75009)

- 15, rue Saint-Augustin (75002)

- 24, rue de Richelieu (75001)

- Galerie de Nemours (75001)

- Palais Royal (75001)

- Place Colette (75001)

- Rue de Rivoli, on the Place du Palais Royal (75001)

- Louvre Museum (behind the Pyramid) (75001)

- 28, rue de Vaugirard (75006)

- Saint-Sulpice Church (75006)

- The Observatory (75014)

Paris on Demand

World Fair, Paris, 1900

Lovely photos of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris.

 All images from Brooklyn Museum

See many more at Retronaut

Paris Metro Photographs

Janol Apin's photographs of people dressed to match Paris  metro stations.

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Allergic To Paris

Each year, Paris welcomes 45 million visitors to the city. Of those, roughly 1 million come from Japan. And of those million visitors, each year, about twenty fall ill to an odd condition called "Paris Syndrome" -- effectively, an acute reaction to being in Paris.

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Thanks Bruce!

A Paris Connection

Cedric Canard's stunning photos of Paris look like paintings.

More at My Modern Metropolis

Peurs sur la ville

French war photographer Patrick Chauvel has created chilling photos of battlefields in the heart of Paris by superimposing war images over Paris scenes. 

See the slideshow at Le Point Via Frogmoke

Vintage Photos of Paris

A nice collection of vintage prints by postcard photographer Pierre Yves Petit aka Yvon.

La Place du Tertre

Rhinoceros and Terrace of the Palais du Trocadero

Seine

Preferring to photograph at sunrise and sunset, he worked the drama of the sublime, making stunning, hypnotizing and beautiful pictures. Yvon's style evokes other flaneurs of the time such as Eugene Atget, Andre Kertesz and Brassai.

See more here

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Seeing the Early-Morning Paris That Atget Photographed

I've blogged about Eugene Atget before here and here. He was a French photographer who took thousands pictures of the streets of Paris capturing them for posterity. I've seen many of his photos in exhibits, own books of them and have walked a lot of the streets he photographed. Many of these locations have changed very little over the past century except for the addition of automobiles.

Paris from above

Paris seen from a different perspective. It's even more beautiful viewed from above. Turn the sound down if you dislike the soundtrack - some of it is awful.


Paris vu du Ciel de Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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ParisiAnimals

What, no M. Chat? He's my favourite French feline.


ParisiAnimals - a set on Flickr
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The "blueprints" of Monsieur Eiffel

These designs are reproductions of Eiffel's original designs included in his book 'The 300 Meter Tower', Lemercier publications, Paris 1900. More

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Paris 1962

A great Flickr set of  Paris 1962. 

I especially like the photos of Les Halles before the area was neutered.

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Pastries pastries everywhere in Paris

Click here to see Pastry | Paris

Kisses from Paris

This is the first year in a very long time that I haven't visited Paris and I'm missing it. I know that no one feels sorry for me.

Kisses from Paris by Yvan Attal  on Vimeo.

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Animated graffiti time travel

"Over a period of five years, designer Arnaud Jourdain took thousands of photos of the graffiti on the facade of Serge Gainsbourg's last home adress, at 5a Rue de Verneuil, in the fifth arrondissement of Paris. He then converted his images into a wonderful animated 3D sequence of colors and collages."

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LA PRINCESSE HÉLÈNE DE YOUGOSLAVIE PRÉSENTE MR.CHAT

I would really like to see this show featuring my favourite chat. His cheery little face pops up all over Paris and I have taken lots of pictures of him.

Le cadre de mon travail est la ville, ses rues, ses murs, et le regard de ceux qui l’habitent. J’utilise la rue et l’environnement public comme une toile, cherchant à proposer aux passants des fenêtres imaginatives et colorées. Je marque mes parcours, ceux que j’imagine naturels et poétiques dans l’espace urbain. Je cherche à créer des supports à la narration de la ville pour ses habitants, participant à la naissance et à l’échange d’une culture de proximité. Il s’agit avant tout de rendre « beau » mon environnement quotidien en utilisant les moyens que je prends, ou que l’on me donne -Thomas VUILLE

Link to the Galerie Pierre Cardin

Below are a couple of my photos of the little guy.

Funny Face

Been-Seen's Movie Atlas takes us to the Parisian locations in the fabulous Funny Face. Beautiful movie, beautiful city.

janaundjs

Paris street art by Jana and JS.





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